Add GetCharacter() and GetUnmodifiedCharacter() methods to views::Event.

views/events/event.h

Index: views/events/event.h
diff --git a/views/events/event.h b/views/events/event.h
index 4173d5382cacc0d3b7dd744cb39121192cb06077..a52e6141c301d28efb9eedf6dc392a34cc6fad71 100644
--- a/views/events/event.h
+++ b/views/events/event.h
@@ -289,14 +289,26 @@ class KeyEvent : public Event {
   // Creates a new KeyEvent synthetically (i.e. not in response to an input
   // event from the host environment). This is typically only used in testing as
   // some metadata obtainable from the underlying native event is not present.
-  // TODO(beng): see if we can kill this.
+  // It's also used by input methods to fabricate keyboard events.
   KeyEvent(ui::EventType type,
            ui::KeyboardCode key_code,
            int event_flags);
 
   ui::KeyboardCode key_code() const { return key_code_; }
 
+  // Gets the character generated by this key event. It only supports Unicode
+  // BMP characters.
+  uint16 GetCharacter() const;
+
+  // Gets the character generated by this key event ignoring concurrently-held
+  // modifiers (except shift).
+  uint16 GetUnmodifiedCharacter() const;
+
  private:
+  // A helper function to get the character generated by a key event in a
+  // platform independent way. It supports control characters as well.
+  static uint16 GetCharacterFromKeyCode(ui::KeyboardCode key_code, int flags);
+
   ui::KeyboardCode key_code_;
 
   DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(KeyEvent);